Social Commentaries
Of an importunate prater, out of Martiall
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
HE that is hoarse, yet still to prate doth please,
Proues he can neither speake, nor hold his peace.
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 48
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